CURRENT ISSUE | VOLUME 11 - ISSUE 11 | December 2016
COVER STORY
Women in STEM
Still facing and overcoming a host of challenges
Business Management
The story of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields is one of solid accomplishments amid an array of serious challenges.
Cost-conscious owners want facilities to meet their visions and business objectives while also including flexibility, efficiency, safety, and robust utility/engineering systems.
Research-Specific Labs
With centipede venom research, the key obstacle is the availability of venoms for research purposes
Leadership and Staffing
Change is inevitable for laboratories in order to stay abreast of the latest technology and adapt to new customer needs
Laboratory Technology
Laboratory automation enhances productivity and safety, while minimizing costs and errors.
The latest equipment, instruments, and system introductions to the laboratory market.
New monitoring system saves labs time and money
Lab Health and Safety
Forethought and preplanning, i.e., developing a response plan, can help immensely when crisis hits
INSIGHTS
While HPLC and mass spec make inroads into nontraditional markets, interest remains in molecular techniques that address the unique needs of clinicians and drug developers.
Agencies and consumers demand more vigilance...and that takes new technology
Ask the Expert
Dr. Jonathan Karty has been manager of the Mass Spectrometry Facility at Indiana University (IU) since June 2004, having worked at the facility since graduating from IU.
While there are many advantages to automating certain workflows in the lab, a lot of thought must be put into when and where automation can be best used
Product Focus
When scientists must measure more than one parameter, a multimeter might be the right tool.
"That tip you discard after each pipetting step, costing just a few cents, embodies technical sophistication that’s critical for pipetting accuracy." - Brian Perry, PhD.
Why it's time to replace your water aspirator with a vacuum pump
Filtering water where it gets used works best in many situations
Surveys
Find out which separation modes are most popular, and more in the results of our 2016 survey
Find out our readers' most common homogenizer applications, and more, in the results of our 2016 survey
Learn the fume hood types used by survey respondents, and much more in the results of our latest survey
Get questions you may want to ask when buying a LIMS, and much more
How it Works
A clean room station makes it possible to store samples in clean room conditions and create the optimum conditions for highly sensitive measurements in the field of elemental analysis